modem woes

I have installed a U.S. Robotics "Performance Pro" (model #5610B) dial-up
modem on my new box. It is *not* a win modem and according to U.S. Robotics
will definitely work with Linux but (a) SuSE 8.2's plug 'n pray script does
not find it and I have not been able to get it to raise a dial tone.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'd also very much like to know if
anyone else is using this modem successfully.

TIA,

Maury

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:03:25 -0500, Maury Merkin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have installed a U.S. Robotics "Performance Pro" (model #5610B) dial-up
> modem on my new box. It is *not* a win modem and according to U.S. Robotics
> will definitely work with Linux but (a) SuSE 8.2's plug 'n pray script does
> not find it and I have not been able to get it to raise a dial tone.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'd also very much like to know if
> anyone else is using this modem successfully.

In that distro I do not think you should need to do anything with PnP
scripts (not pnpdump or isapnp) which may just interfere with BIOS and
Linux assignments (in fact that may make it not work). You certainly do
not need to do anything with PnP if it is a PCI modem (PnP is for ISA
devices).

I do not know about that specific modem, but what do boot messages show
for anything other than on board serial ports? Note that may show an
extra zero so ttyS01 should be able to be accessed as /dev/ttyS1. If
'setserial' for the device you suspect it is shows a proper UART
(typically 16550A) it should be set to go. If it shows something like
8250 UART it is not.

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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:03:25 -0500, Maury Merkin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have installed a U.S. Robotics "Performance Pro" (model #5610B) dial-up
> modem on my new box. It is *not* a win modem and according to U.S. Robotics
> will definitely work with Linux but (a) SuSE 8.2's plug 'n pray script does
> not find it and I have not been able to get it to raise a dial tone.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'd also very much like to know if
> anyone else is using this modem successfully.

Look at /proc/pci and use setserial to set io and irq to what you see from
there that they are set to.


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